Red velvet is without a doubt, one of the best choices to go with when baking a cake. Do it right and you'll always end up with something that looks great and tastes even better. Although it's really just a rich buttermilk cake tinged with red, the colour makes it worth all the while. The recipe is simple. Combine the listed amount of milk, egg and softened butter...

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I sit here writing from my couch, curled up in foetal position, with my phone at 2% battery, currently starving because I forgot the council switched off the electricity today. With most of my electronic entertainment sources cut off, I’m forced to listen to the sounds of cars driving past, and the birds chirping outside, I can even hear all the clocks in my house ticking. I might...

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I spent a solid half an hour trying to think of a joke to start this entry, so if you think you can think of a fish joke for me, please let minnow. *baddumtss* It’s not every day you get the opportunity to feed the sharks, so when I saw that Sydney aquarium had daily shark feeding sessions for visitors, I thought “Oh my god. Let’s do this.” ...

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Wet weather and cold air equals the perfect excuse to whip out the chopping board and pre-heat the oven, and what could be better than a pizza and a side of cookies? Pizza What you'll need: A conveniently packaged mix of flour and yeast for the pizza base Some pizza sauce CHEEEEEESE Any type of meat you can find, and  A whole lot of patience Step 1: Take...

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One of the highlights of post HSC break was a road trip I took while staying in Vietnam. Sitting around the dinner table one evening, my uncle decided that it was time we ditched Saigon and head somewhere much less humid and rowdy. At first, I thought he was joking. But it surprised me how fast we were out of the house and onto the road the next...

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This is Teddy He's my little 11 week old Pomeranian puppy He's very playful, very dramatic, and very lazy - and I mean really lazy  He's been with me for almost a month and he's definitely brought so much life to our household.  Every morning at 6 he wakes up my mum to tell her he has to pee and every night at 6 he runs to me...

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